 | 1771 - 882 pages
...pleafe, Far from the, heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and cafe. Kor eafe, nor peace, the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy, or woei But turning trembles too. Toe a diArefs the foul can wound, Tii pain in each degree, P.lii's pes... | |
 | Francis Fawkes - 1763 - 268 pages
...heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. Far as diflrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree ; Blifs goes but to a certain bound ; Beyond... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 pages
...more ftrilcing inftance of the curiofa fetid t as, than the following ftanza : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A fine A fine imagination and a fenfible heart generally go together, of which nothing can be a ftronger... | |
 | Moses Mendez - 1770 - 334 pages
...Far from the heart thofe gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. F 4 Nor Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond is agony. Take... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart «an know. That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. For as diilrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree; Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond... | |
 | 1773 - 306 pages
...pleafe : Far from the heart fuch gifts remove That ftghs for pe^ce and eafe. Nor eafe nor peace the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too, Far Far as diftrefs the foul can wound-, 'Tis pain in each degree : Blifs goes but to a certain bound :... | |
 | 1773 - 380 pages
...remove That fighs for peace and cafe. • . Nor eafe nor peace the heart can know> Which, like ihe needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But; turning, trembles too. * Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : Blifs goes but to a certain bound: Beyond is agony. Take... | |
 | 1773 - 614 pages
...beautiful image, in Mrs. Greville's ode to Indifference, where (he fays that her heart —..• ' " - like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy, or woe, But, turning, trembles too we find Jn that poem in Cowley's Miftrefs, called, Refthed tf te beloved t The needle trembles fo,... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 pages
...too generally predominate, and verify thefe elegant and often-quoted lines : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. But the principal inconveniences of ftrong fenfibility are the abfurdities of conduct it gives rife... | |
 | Poems - 1775 - 518 pages
...heart thofe gifts remove, That figh for peace and eafej! Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or...; But, turning, trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond, is agony. Then... | |
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Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. 
